[Tfug] Drive erase options?

[Zack Williams]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Tom Rini <trini at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> Hey guys.  I'm looking to clean up some odds and ends around the house
> and looking for good and preferably Linux based (since at least some of
> the machines are powerpc) disk erasers.  Standalone (like memtest86) is
> also possible, at least for some of these I think.  Options?  Thanks!

DBAN.  Comes in both x86 and PPC versions.

http://www.dban.org/download

I've found the USB erasing in the > 2.0 versions to be flaky and crash, YMMV.

- Zack